Pirate Bay Co-Founder Found Guilty – Denmark’s Largest Hacking Case

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Found Guilty – Denmark’s Largest Hacking Case

The co-founder of The Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (Anakata) and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant have been found guilty by a Danish court of hacking into systems operated by American IT giant CSC and illegally downloading files. It was the biggest hacking case ever conducted in the history of Denmark.

In what the prosecution called the country’s biggest hacking case, Svartholm Warg, 30, was found guilty of breaking into various Danish public databases controlled by IT service provider CSC in 2012, accessing hundreds of thousands of social security numbers, criminal records and extradition agreements. Svartholm Warg allegedly committed the crime along with his accomplice, a 21-year-old Dane only known as “JKT” (the judge asked his name not to be published) according to media reports.

The defence team argued that although the hack attacks were carried out using a computer owned by Svartholm, but he was not the person that used it to steal the files as, they said, his entire group of developers had access to the computer. So, any one of them could be responsible for the hacking.

The judge will announce the length of their sentence on Friday. The prosecution has asked for six years in prison.